Eviction looming for elderly Bernal woman and more than a dozen tenants

“Four judges have looked at this and four judges are in agreement” regarding scheduled Friday ouster of aged woman and her many tenants

From Nancy Pili Hernandez’s front door, you can smell the wild grasses of Bernal Heights Park. You can see them, too, but it’s the windborne scent you notice. It’s beautiful.

Hernandez, a tenant and room manager here since 2002 — along with 78-year-old erstwhile homeowner Kathleen Needham and more than a dozen other long-term tenants including four school-age children — continues to oppose the sale of the property at 117 Ripley St. They contend, and have for years, that Vanguard real estate agent Shelley Trew and mortgage broker Steven Herbert pressured the elderly Needham into signing papers she didn’t understand and which she immediately attempted to have nullified. Needham is currently under power of attorney — her affairs are now being managed by a woman named Maureen Uribe. Needham, per Hernandez, has been recently … READ MORE HERE.